Looking For Miranda [Book: 1]

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Miranda runs away, love lost, body broken, will she find love? Or will it eventually tear her up inside? Will she ever trust anyone besides her best-friend, or can two boys open her eyes to something she thought she had lost in the past?

9. Chapter Eight

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~Miranda's POV~

I didn't know who to pick at first. But then I had an idea.

"Come here, both of you." I smirked at them as they crawled over.

"So who is it love?" Harry's eyes grew darker, with lust or something.

"Well." I leaned over to each of them quickly and kissed their cheeks. "You can go back to your seat Harry." Niall was sitting next to me. They pouted and Harry crawled back over to his seat.

"Really? You were supposed to kiss one of them on the lips, I think." Louis looked over and I could tell he didn't like how I played, Mr. Truth or Dare King.

"Heh, no. Harry did not specify on where. He didn't say lips. I simply did the dare, and made it fair." I crossed my arms and stuck my chin up, wow I was doing this alot around them, I guess they just brought the inner child of me out.

"Fine fine, lets just get back to the game, Liam, truth or dare someone." Louis was mad, I could tell.

"Okay, Trent, truth or dare?" I knew she would pick truth, she always did, like me. As I suspected, "Truth." "Who do you think is most attractive here from most to least?" Haha. I kinda wanted to know who she thought was most attractive too.

"Well, first is obviously Miranda, duh. Okay, so second would be you, Liam. And third is Zayn, then Niall, Harry, and last but not least Louis." She didn't hesitate. I smiled, "Suck it boys." I hugged Trent and stuck my tongue out at them.

"But. I am a sexy beast!" Harry stuck his lower lip out. It was cute.

"Uhh, moving on, it's your turn Trent." We all looked at her.

"Er, uhm. Harry, truth or dare?" "Dare!" Trent was a master at dares, he was in for it.

"Wrong choice but okay. I dare you to run into the ocean with only boxers on, and stay in there for an hour." Not her best, but it would be funny, it was pretty cold outside, 40 degrees and the ocean must have been only like 50 or 60 degrees. (Fahrenheit)

"But it'll be co-old!" He started pouting again, but I knew he wouldn't chicken out. He started stripping and looked at us with yet another smirk, "Are you sure you don't want me naked?" "No, not really." I couldn't help but picture him naked now. Damn that Harry Styles. He was ripped, his toned chest and stomach, I couldn't really help but stare. "I know you like what you see." "No, you have two ants on your stomach." He didn't but it would be funny to see him jump around, and it was! "Just kidding, it's just your two extra nipples!" Teasing him was fun.

"I'll be going into the ocean now." He ran off, with all the rest of the six of us following him.

"Now I wanna swim!" Louis and Zayn started stripping down to their boxers too. With Niall and Liam following after the others were in the ocean.

"Well aren't you two coming? It's not that bad, right mate?" Harry looked at Liam and Liam smiled, "No it's not!" I hadn't really been in a body of water besides a swimming pool since Scott...

"In a little, I just want to go walk a bit." I started walking on the beach behind our houses, humming the tune of Eyes Wide Open by Gotye. It was one of the five songs I liked of theirs.

"With our eyes wide open, we...

With our eyes wide open, we...

So this is the end of the story,

Everything we had, everything we did,

Is buried in dust,

And this dust is all that's left of us.

But only a few ever worried.

Well the signs were clear, they had no idea.

You just get used to living in fear,

Or give up when you can't even picture your future.

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open." I silently sang to myself, before my mom was in her accident, she always told me I was an amazing singer. But I wasn't I was only okay, just average, I could hit most every note to songs, but I wasn't anything special.

I don't know why, but this song meant alot to me, for some reason, it felt like it explained a few things. I felt a hand on my shoulder, it was Harry.

"What are you doing here, you have a dare." I looked up at him, "Well, they said I could come talk to you. So what are you doing here, walking on the beach and singing to yourself love?"

"I don't know, sometimes I just have to get away from people, don't get me wrong, I love you guys so much already. But I need some alone time sometimes. I guess this was one of them." He smiled.

"Well, you have a great voice. I think I've heard that song before. Maybe once." "It's called Eyes Wide Open, by Gotye. I really like it. I guess it speaks to me, if that makes any sense." I smiled to myself, he would probably understand.

"Yeah, it does. Lots of songs speak to me." We started walking and talking. He stopped me and looked down into my eyes, "You know. You are very beautiful." I blushed and he leaned down to kiss me, "I don't think we should do this." I pulled away as he came as close that our lips would've touched.

"Miranda, I'm sorry love. I just got carried away, but you are beautiful. I'm sorry." He looked down, ashamed. "It's okay, maybe we should start heading back?" I turned around and ran back to the others. I didn't want to talk to anyone, I just wanted to go back to my room.

(A/N) Hey so do you guys like it so far? Anybody like Gotye? I only like Eyes Wide Open! Feedback would be great! Thanks, I love you guys for sticking with my story!